Benjamin L. Cardin: “You have all mentioned the Wagner Group several times, and as I understand there will be some additional sanctions in…”

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.